1989 V. R. Clark

A portrait of V. R. Clark (1940 ASTA (GtBn), AIST (GtBn), ONZM), the Bledsloe Medallist, 1989. He joined staff of Canterbury Agricultural College in 1940 as a technician in the Animal Husbandry Department under Professor C.P. McMeekan. He was the first New Zealander to qualify as an Associate of the Institute of Science and Technology, University of London. He became lecturer in Animal Science in 1966 and senior lecturer 10 years later. He was President of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production in 1972, and made an Honorary Life Member in 1981. As a member of that society he instigated the McMeekan Memorial Award in 1974 for outstanding contributions to animal production. In 2005 Vern Clark was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to agriculture and the community.